Currently not on view
Virgin and Child,
late 15th–early 16th century
Circle of Master of the Dangolsheimer Madonna, South German
y1954-73
This work is representative of the development of a new, specifically German, taste in art in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. One of the most active sectors of production was carved painted wooden sculptures. This work also illustrates the importance of the invention and spread of printmaking in disseminating the style in the regions of the Rhine and Danube rivers. For example, comparisons for the Virgin's highly ornamental curls of hair and the animated folds of the drapery can be found in prints.
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Information
Title
Virgin and Child
Dates
late 15th–early 16th century
Maker
Circle of Master of the Dangolsheimer Madonna
Medium
Wood with polychromy and gilding
Dimensions
86.5 x 55.4 x 31.7 cm (34 1/16 x 21 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1954-73
Place Made
Europe, South Germany
Culture
Subject
Mathias Komor Gallery, New York; [1] Purchased in February 1954 by The Princeton University Art Museum as a gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection.
NOTES:
[1] Described by Mathias Komor as a "Carved wood bust of the Virgin and Child, blessing. With old gilt and polychromy, intact, with only very slight retouching. Germany – from the Upper Rhine. Attributed to the Master of the Dangolsheimer Madonna. About 1490. With old red velvet stand." See receipt in curatorial file.
- "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 14, no. 1 (1955): p. 17-19., p. 18
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 40[? -obscured on card] - Robert A. Koch, "A Gothic sculpture of the Ascending Christ", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 19, no. 1 (1960): p. 37-43., p. 38
- H.R.H., "The Art Museum at Princeton University: a selection from the collections", Art Journal 26, no. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967): p. 172+174+176+178., p. 178, fig. 14
- "The A.M. Friend, Jr. Memorial Room: given by George S. Heyer of the Class of 1952," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 25, no. 1/2 (1966): 28–29., p. 29 (illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 252 (illus.)
- Peter Springer and Russell Stockman, "The Princeton Madonna: Views of a Remarkable Sculpture, " Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2004): 46–57. , p. 46 (illus.); pp. 47–50, fig. 1–6; p. 53, fig. 11
- Jack Soultanian, "Technical Note: A Late-Fifteenth-Century German Polychrome Wood Madonna and Child," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2011): 58–61., pp. 58–59, figs. 1–6; p. 61 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 349
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 121
